Yoshinori Henguchi''s explosive poetry and gritty photography build on the surrealism of Haruki Murakami and his contemporaries to create a new aesthetic for a young generation of Japanese artists. Henguchi explores what he calls man''s foolish will to define himself on a canvas of infinities and nothingness.
This collection is especially designed for book lovers, collectors, and readers who revel in the act of reading. It includes Henguchi''s essay-poem Nihongo in both English and Japanese, more than sixty pages of color photography, and seventy beautifully designed poems. The overall effect of the book is to plunge the reader into an underground subculture somewhere in the backstreets of Osaka. The mundane trappings of life in JapanTV screens, kitchen cutlery, household tools, plastic umbrellas, women''s shoulder padsare rendered absurd and surreal in both Henguchi''s poetry and photography.
Yoshinori Henguchi is a photographer, artist,
Table of Contents
Nihongo Poems I. 1. The Tea Room 2. Zero Years Old 3. Sunday Memory 4. Hello 5. Caterwaul 6. A Convenient Armageddon 7. Fletcher 8 8. A Secret Yellow-Green 9. Gradient 10. Motivation 11. Fire Extinguisher 12. From the Tea Room 13. Cozy 14. An Apartment 600 Miles Away 15. Scars Are Scars 16. A Primal Scene 17. Yesterday the Afternoon Disappeared 18. Six Six Years 19. Dice Male 20. A Day I Did Not Want to Laugh 21. Morita II. 22. Things I Know 23. On My Way 24. IN Nihon 25. Gone Insane 26. Passing By 27. Normal Everyday Faucets 28. The Rain Continues to Fall Indiscriminately 29. Soothing Air 30. The Last Flower I Will Ever See in This Life 31. Vitality, Control, Unnecessary Items 32. nu 33. A Former Red Hotel 34. Giant 35. An Average Daily Life 36. Broken Hand 37. Off III. 38. Subtraction and Blackness 39. On Emeralds 40. Everyone (1/14) 41. This Novel of Strange Love 42. Hi 43. The Resident 44. Gold As Gold 45. What Are You Looking at? 46. I Proclaim 47. Please Do Not Laugh 48. With a Calm Visage 49. Around the Yeti 50. Do You Understand? IV. 51. One Dark Night in a Late Spring 52. Goodbye Scissors 53. Formal Attire 54. Fevers 55. Open Your Eyes 56. Visited 57. Thinking in Bed Intertwined 58. Firmly Clasped Hands 59. Framing the Freedom of Being Torn Apart V. 60. A Staircase Landing 61. Example 62. Old People 63. Soutaro 64. Choosing 65. Artificial Flower Skin 66. Play Synthesis 67. Habit 68. My Uncle is Drama Itself 69. Falling Forward Slightly 70. I Don’t Sympathize 71. Legs/
